I've seen a video doing those on any character and they all had this mustard-y blood. Maybe it was edited, but looked as if in-game there was some filter setting, like some streamer mode.
Somewhere out there, there is an animator really happy with themselves that they made sure every single creepy crawly got REEEAAAAAL close to the screen.
Ermac's one is also perfect, not just because "We are many", but also the symbolism of the swarm of locusts being one of the deadly plagues of Egypt. Ermac has previously had very mummy-esque designs
I like how a lot of the animals still resemble their regular forms. Pufferfish Rain is purple, Hyena Havik has the burned mouth, Porcupine Baraka has jacked up teeth, etc. It’s a nice touch.
Mileena's is, to be more specific, an Orchid Mantis! They evolved the ability to camouflage amongst orchids in order to easily catch prey, so they come in a BEAUTIFUL range of colors.
Not only that, but it perfectly fits Mileena's femme fatale "Will fuck your brains out before eating your face" Kind of persona. After all, female mantis are known for eating the male's head (just like she did) right after they reproduce.
And they’re what is known as Facultative herbivores. Some herbivores are obligate (aka they only eat plants), Facultative herbivores eat mostly plants but sometimes meat, most animals are omnivores, then there’s Facultative carnivores (the opposite of the facultative herbivores) and the obligate carnivores eat ONLY meat.
Ashrah takes the cake for me, the surprise, misdirection and a sudden torrent of rainbow flames was 11/10... Also makes sense that the character that wants to purify her demonic self and become a heavenly being to become a heavenly being who purifies curses, blights and diseases
The one thing that gets me is that Flytraps have a toxin in their mouth they use to dissolve their food. So it feels like a missed opportunity to not have them melt inside the mouth.
yet a Flytrap isnt even an animal and thats not how they kill insects, they should've made it trap and absorb them, literally melt their bodies, how could a missed oppertunity like that be overlooked? It sounds way better than what they did here
No matter what we got, Peacemaker was going to be the best in show just because he got to share a special moment with Eagly, he still got to use guns and of course: America.
Peacemaker going full Team America is so perfect. Smoke on Kong mode ruled. Griffin Homelander is quite the choice. Omni Man becoming THE Hail Mary is hilarious.
Homelander as a griffin was a interesting take for his character. Smoke going Kong Fantastic idea. The idea of Liu Kang becoming a phoenix is an interesting choice which I completely understand since like he’s mostly associated as a dragon so the change here is that he’s reborn from that which I like it’s a great take on his character However the one with Kung Lao as a tiger is my personal favorite 10 out of 10 on it
I assumed that they did. It was just very obvious the only shark movie is Jaws and it's Johnny Cage. I think they're mostly just talking about the animality itself
One thing I love about the animalities is that they're animated with a sense of conscious behavior that you'd see in a PERSON. They use bits of their anatomy in ways an animal would never think to, like Scorpion using his tail to toss them up for a claw slash, or Shang Tsung being a cobra, but using his teeth to twist their head off rather than poisoning them or swallowing them whole.
6:14 I think they could have done a little bit better with Liu Kang's phoenix. I like where they were going, but the phoenix disappears too fast and pile of ash appears way too quickly. The way it currently is shot makes the pile of ash awkwardly just appear, despite the seemingly concussive force of the phoenix explosion. Had they made it so that the ash rained down and collected into said pile of ash, then I would have been satisfied with it. If I were doing this animality, I would have had it be slightly a little longer. Where the camera switches from the charred corpse inside to the exterior shot of the phoenix, I would have had the phoenix just be consumed by the fire, but not explosively. Instead, I would have had the flames burn super huge and bright, then hastily die down. Then, before the flames are all but snuffed out, the camera switches to focus on a single remaining feather, which drops towards the remaining dying flames and the pile of ash. It begins to play the "Animality", then the feather hits the pile of ash, right as the last flames are snuffed out, and the phoenix rises from the ash.
I do posts on Aztec history and archeology, and Kitana's Hummingbird animality here shoulda been what Kotal got instead of his Jaguar stuff. For whatever reason the games/comics keep calling Kotal "Buluc", a Maya god, but Kotal is clearly based on Huitzliopotchli, a patron god of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital: Kotal's moveset and gear names use Nahuatl (Aztec language) words, Kotal's variations being tied to War, Sun, and Sacrifice all mesh with Huitz.'s associations, and Huitz. also has blue-green body paint and wields the fire serpent Xiuhcoatl as a weapon, and Kotal's concept art shows that was inspiration of his snake sickles. Huitzliopotchli was tied to Hummingbirds, his name even meaning something like "Left/South sided hummingbird" or "Hummingbird from the left/south": Hummingbirds were tied to warfare and combat, both perhaps because their quick movements and long beak evokes swift combat and strikes and males tend to get into fights with each other, but also because soldiers who died in combat were thought to be reborn in a floral realm of the sun where they suckled on nectar as Hummingbirds or butterflies.
I think you put more effort here into the idea than they did. Gotta remember Mortal Kombat characters are loosely based on cultural stereotypes and pop culture references rather than anything actually historically accurate. I'm pretty sure when designing Kotal they just went "Hey lets make an Aztec-ish character to replace our Genghis Kahn reference character, kinda like Ogre from Tekken 3 but with a backstory full of plot armor that he'll never have in the games."
@@shinzero0271 To be clear, I think Kotal is actually the least-badly handled Mesoamerican fighting game character: Tam-Tam and Huitzil aren't even really Mesoamerican, Ogre is as far as I can tell a complete nothing sterotype, and Necalli is even worse in his default form (tho I think his story mode form is a visually neat reference to some Mesoamerican mosaic artwork). Aside from his outfit and the jaguar elements instead of the hummingbird ones, Kotal is a pretty solid adaptation of Huitzliopotchli, and I'm willing to give MK slack since as you say, it's entire theme is over the top 80's action movies and those were filled with sterotypes.
Also, the funny thing? Nitara's battle cries and sounds weren't Megan Fox. Those were Cristina Vee. They knew she was so bad, they got someone else to do those too.
I still can't fathom having an accomplished voice actor on your payroll only too swap her with an actor who is only famous because she showed up in transformers
@@OsakaLoverwhy they didn’t just make an alternate skin for Nitara for the Megan Fox fans and have Christina Vee be the voice for Nitara as default is beyond me
Homelander is pretty good, hes a monster so he got a monster verison of a Eagle, Americas fav animal. Peacemaker is basically that video with the eagle with guns and the some America Fuq' yEAH playing in the back
Reptile’s animality reminds me of Poison Ivy’s super in Injustice 2 and every single time I see Tanya I am going to picture Patrick laughing and saying “it’s a giraffe!!”
Mileena as an Orchid Mantis is cool as hell. General Shao's is grizzly (lmao) Peacemaker's is fucking incredible. 11 out of 10. and i gotta agree with Max; Kitana is ABSOLUTELY a 10. girl POSED.
Peacemaker's Animality is literally a Great one, he teams up with his Best Friend Eagly. Also the pain Reptile got to go through these, he's basically Kenny from South Park.
How did you all miss that the Phoenix is a reference to LK being the one who resets timeline? Its an easy 10/10. I love the Dragon, but it's been done so well in 2, 4 and 9, plus it was represented very well in his launch Fatal
Top 3 right after Ashrah's! Very creative and so in-tuned with a hummingbird's primary indicators. And can we just talk about how it's a direct callback to Kitana's feathery VFX motif? So insane design perspective.
I've said this before: I think it would be funny if the T-1000 just turned back into his human form, because humans are technically animals and he's technically "transforming"
What makes these animalities better than most fatalities is that they subvert expectations. When you watch someone like Sub Zero do a fatality, you expect "awe he gonna freeze the guy in some way and break him apart." Yeah, it looks cool but yeah, you had an idea. Here they were talking like "Lu Kang has to be a dragon, its mandatory, and you got something different. 95% of the roster got something you didn't expect. Top that with the visceral deaths and some light humor and it makes it so much better.
New content gets added to the Mortal Kombat franchise.
The character who's blood isn't red: FU**
I've seen a video doing those on any character and they all had this mustard-y blood. Maybe it was edited, but looked as if in-game there was some filter setting, like some streamer mode.
😂 😂
When T-1000 drops, Reptile may finally rest
@@CalciumChief Could also be a blood color mod.
@@CalciumChief Maybe Color blind mode ?
Somewhere out there, there is an animator really happy with themselves that they made sure every single creepy crawly got REEEAAAAAL close to the screen.
And they’re going STRAIGHT to hell for it
@@samclayton628as someone who hates bugs its funny asf LOL
Ermac's one is also perfect, not just because "We are many", but also the symbolism of the swarm of locusts being one of the deadly plagues of Egypt. Ermac has previously had very mummy-esque designs
Yeah in mkx he had a mummy for his halloween skin
I actually kinda called him being Locusts
My exact thoughts. They've been going for the "Mummy" look as of late with this guy.
@@BG-mv7vm As of late?
He's been a mummy guy since the PS2
I thought it was because there's hundreds of souls within him and there's hundreds of locusts in a swarm...
4:18 Inside you there are two wolves:
One wants to rip.
One wants to tear.
Until its done?
It's really a shame that nightwolf isn't in this game
Until it. Is. DONE.
I like how a lot of the animals still resemble their regular forms. Pufferfish Rain is purple, Hyena Havik has the burned mouth, Porcupine Baraka has jacked up teeth, etc. It’s a nice touch.
It's like porcupine suffering the tarkat
Milena's praying mantis also has Baraka's teeth. You can see them at the end.
I also like how Kenshi's wolf is blind too. You see the fully white eyes.
Sub Zero Mammoth still had frost on its tusks
*Kamala Harris Havik
Mileena's is, to be more specific, an Orchid Mantis! They evolved the ability to camouflage amongst orchids in order to easily catch prey, so they come in a BEAUTIFUL range of colors.
I LOVE ORCHID MANTI AAAAA
Not only that, but it perfectly fits Mileena's femme fatale "Will fuck your brains out before eating your face" Kind of persona.
After all, female mantis are known for eating the male's head (just like she did) right after they reproduce.
Female preying mantis also devour the heads of their mates from memory. And the animality is called "Maneater", so it's layered beyond belief.
Notice how Mileena as a mantis gets too close to the head?? Like almost seductive?
That's her fatal in MK9
The orchid mantis also being the inspiration for the Pokemon Lurantis iirc.
Johnny's is a Jaws reference and that is why it is amazing to me.
For me it was the absolute best
if the death was drawn out more like the first death in Jaws it would've been a 10 for me
And Smoke's is a King Kong reference which is also pretty awesome
Totally deserved 10 out of 10, legendary
The nicknames each one gets are fantastic - Johnny's is "Open The Beaches"
Not only did Peacemaker's animality needed a cheeseburger, it also needed someone in a bikini with sparklers. Would've been 12/10
Yeah, John Cena in a bikini with sparklers.
I thought America didn't like bikinis in games? ;)
@@lordtrigon1733 Okay?
true but 13:28 works well as well!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Peacemaker is a WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER!?/10.
Also, I hear you measure things in -Celcius- Centipedes elsewhere,
but around these parts we measure in Freedom Units! 🦅
Not enough OIL™️🛢️, aka FREEDUMB, therefore a 0/10 on the American scale 😎
IT'S CALLED SOCCER/10
Also very fit for US having guns.. eh? lol
It feels TOO on the nose... because Murica... but it's done SO DAMN WELL.
8:54 I love how Ashrah makes you taste the rainbow
Raze the Rainbow, Taste the Rainbow
Peacemakers is the by far THE MOST AMERICAN THING EVER 🇺🇸🎆
I too get my opinions from Twitter comments no please say something more unoriginal
Loser
America 🇺🇸
I give Peacemakers animality the title of the most wholesomely violent finisher I’ve ever seen
Sucks that Homelander feels unoriginal compared to him
14:14 There is a photo of a giraffe eating a dead gazelle's leg. Many "herbivores" actually do eat meat.
I've heard a story of a giraffe in a zoo stomping a raccoon (I think that was the critter), and causing a bunch of kids to break down
And they’re what is known as Facultative herbivores. Some herbivores are obligate (aka they only eat plants), Facultative herbivores eat mostly plants but sometimes meat, most animals are omnivores, then there’s Facultative carnivores (the opposite of the facultative herbivores) and the obligate carnivores eat ONLY meat.
@venomgaming7014 so what you're saying is diet is a spectrum?
Ashrah takes the cake for me, the surprise, misdirection and a sudden torrent of rainbow flames was 11/10...
Also makes sense that the character that wants to purify her demonic self and become a heavenly being to become a heavenly being who purifies curses, blights and diseases
Seconded.
I really like that the guy that "turns" into an animal just turns into a plant instead
As the owner of a ridiculously large fly-trap plant, AND Reptile main, it pleased me greatly...
That, and it really fits with Mortal Kombat too because believe it or not, in mythologies, unicorns are depicted as extremely fierce and dangerous.
My Little Pony kicks ass
This is just more proof that NRS needs to revive Primal Rage next. Imagine this kind of thing but with giant dinosaurs and other kaiju sized monsters.
I think it is cleaver to turn Reptile into a Flytrap for his animality because he is technical already a lizard.
The one thing that gets me is that Flytraps have a toxin in their mouth they use to dissolve their food. So it feels like a missed opportunity to not have them melt inside the mouth.
yet a Flytrap isnt even an animal and thats not how they kill insects, they should've made it trap and absorb them, literally melt their bodies, how could a missed oppertunity like that be overlooked? It sounds way better than what they did here
@@Cruddy129That wasn't a flytrap, someone must have been playing Pokemon because that's a Carnivine. 😂
@@NojoJojo598was thinking that but its probably not the most visually stimulating thing
Plus he already has a fatality where he melts you, i think?
Gee Reptile why do you get three Animalities? XD
11:52 Now we know why Omni-Man had so much trouble with this thing in his show, because it was low-key a Viltrumite.
Damn, what was NRS animality budget. All the animals look great. Feels like they wanna do a "Primal rage" game next. (would never happen sadly.)
They focused more on that budget it appears than the Khaos reigns story lol
That's what I'm saying man, NRS's next game should be something other than mortal kombat or injustice
Primal Rage was such a good game.
@@kireorravan428 it should be something other than a fighting game but they're the fighting game dev so
Ed Boon did say he was working on a new IP fighting game...
Makes you wonder what NRS is cooking
3:36 I like how the Panda still looks cute even after committing a horrible murder 😂😂
Indeed
Finally, Kuma and Panda in Mortal Kombat
idk man, I don't see Shao wavedashing and hitting opponents with an EWGF
I see what you did there
A cocained kuma and meat eating panda? That's actually cool
Lolz fr
Honestly got "Never Say No To Panda" commercial vibes, but with more gore. 😅
Peacemaker: WTF IS A KILOMETERRRRR⁉️⁉️💥💥💥💥🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Same with Homelander
Hell, he doesnt even know how to drink milk
Like a normal person
Omni man becoming the kaiju from the comic/first season of the show is peak
It is also ring my head that the creatures he transformed into, is also a reference of Cthulhu mythos. Squid or octopus-like humanoid monster
Agreed; I really expected him to turn into a Rognarr like from the comics, but seeing him become Hail Mary was *so much cooler!*
Considering it's what nearly beats him in the first season, it's fitting
It's number one
Ashrah really said: Friendship is Magic, bitches!
Also, Peacemaker's animality only speaks FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY!
I just realized, Smoke's a reference to King Kong killing a T-Rex by breaking his mouth.
Even down to the roar King Kong had in the Peter Jackson iteration
It is, yes. I also kind of suspect they gave Smoke a Gorilla for "Gorillas in the Mist".
Looooool how did I not notice that
The King Kong dinosaurs are not TRex LOL
@@GeZz.V-Rex ☝️🤓
14:21 Owl House wasn’t kidding about their Giraffes
I love that Noob is a crocodile and doing his old 9 Fatality. "Its an oldie but a goodie" since Crocs haven't changed in thousands of years.
Thousands? Try hundreds of millions!
@@a-walpatches6460 Oh I'm aware. I just kinda derped and figured "eh thousands works too". I wasn't quite awake yet
They could have added a death roll in there
Kind of makes you doubt evolution especially when a praying mantis was found in amber looking exactly like present day praying mantis.
@@applejuicejunkie316 Don't be silly, you can't evolve further if you're already fully optimised.
11:40 (Demands for a Bear)
15:42 (Gets the Bear)
kenny dressed like a character from a 90s sketch comedy show. respect
straight outta The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Ashrah with the Alicorn/Pegacorn is probably my favorite outside of the sheer 'MURICA-ness of Peacemaker's.
Reptile won’t be in the next games because of the torture he’s been through in this game, both in story mode and offline
Dvorah bout to make her come back just to stand in for da green blood
At least we got Human Reptile again... even if they did turn him into a twink.
God I hate NRS post-MK9.
@@huyphan7825god no
Next Mortal Kombat, they should just make a ballistics dummy for a stand in
@@I_AM_BAYTORthey gave him more of a character
15:40 Panda wasn't good enough, here is your Kuma.
No matter what we got, Peacemaker was going to be the best in show just because he got to share a special moment with Eagly, he still got to use guns and of course: America.
Gotta love Eagly!
Peacemaker going full Team America is so perfect.
Smoke on Kong mode ruled.
Griffin Homelander is quite the choice.
Omni Man becoming THE Hail Mary is hilarious.
Homelander as a griffin was a interesting take for his character.
Smoke going Kong Fantastic idea.
The idea of Liu Kang becoming a phoenix is an interesting choice which I completely understand since like he’s mostly associated as a dragon so the change here is that he’s reborn from that which I like it’s a great take on his character
However the one with Kung Lao as a tiger is my personal favorite 10 out of 10 on it
And i think in mythology tiger is the only animal that can rival a dragon, which is so good
Headcanon: Liu Kang is a phoenix because he was literally reborn after the events of MK11.
@@theotherky i think that's the idea
Plus the fact that he already has a Dragon based normal fatality
Is Homelander a Griffin because it is a being that was not supposed to exist (based on the show's plot)?
17:44 A HORNET??? MY BROTHER IN CHRIST YOU JUST SAW ONE 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
"Pandas are nice though!" IT'S STILL A BEAR, MAX!!!
they're not bears, actually!
Pandas are not bears. I think they're raccoons.
They actually are bears. It was once believed they were more closely related to raccoons but they’ve been classified as bears ever since 1985
And they do occasionally eat meat!
Yeah, and don't search for panda attack victins, they can be just as nasty as their cousins
BLOODY ROAR COMMUNITY: eh we'll take what we can get...
Primal Rage comunnity: 💀
Johnnys not being a 10 despite being a JAWS reference should be a crime
They didn't get the fucking reference 💀
@@aryandubey4939 They mentioned Jaws, they understood.
the reference is obvious, but still doesnt push it to 10. i'd say 9 at most
Nah they were right. The set up was friggin' _amazing!_ The actual kill though was just too quick and got overshadowed by the setup.
Because my hate for jade in mk11 has been transferred to MK1 Johnny I’ll give it a 8.275.
As someone allergic to yellow jackets, Cyrax is officially BANNED from play in the house.
15:02 Max getting PTSD from that spider thanks to MKX’s Halloween Tower.
Reminds me of Dvorah's fatality in Mk11
The spider jumpscare was pretty terrifying on mkx konquest.
6:00 BROS DID NOT CATCH THE REFERENCE IM DONE
I assumed that they did. It was just very obvious the only shark movie is Jaws and it's Johnny Cage. I think they're mostly just talking about the animality itself
@betanick14 maybe but like still it was so like there xd
@@PepsiChan205 During the thing, Max outright said "that's jaws"
@senounatsuru6453 a friend of mine told me like 3 days ago xd
But thx, u can barely hear it tho
After watching a video of the characters all bleeding brown blood, I will gladly accept green.
Oh I know the video. It looks like all of them are bleeding diarrhea.
Yeah the brown blood looked like the taco bell aftermath 😂
I've seen white all the time, so i agree with you
lol, I guess that confirms we all saw that vid 😂
@@superxavxii421 We all did 😅
Reptile was harmed in the making of this video
Li Mei's my favourite one, since it has all the hallmarks of a panda: the goofy roll, the lazy sitting and the MUNCHING of yummy food lol. 🐼
Also, what is it with Pandas in media being named Mei? I can think of at least 3 including this one!
Johnny Cage should’ve gotten a 10 for that Jaw’s reference
Yep, Peacemaker's is definitely the best one.
I'd say Ashrah
USA! USA! USA! 🇺🇸
agreed lol 🇺🇸
We go from Griffin
To a Eagle carrying guns
WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Ashrah said "Taste the rainbow mothafuka!!!"
Ashrah just wanted to bring reptile to candy mountain
Candy Mountain, Reptile!
They didn't just take his kidneys this time
That was my first thought too 😂
They should start paying Reptile for how many times we have to kill him in these videos
Cyber Sub-Zero, D'vorah and Reptile: Why are still here?...Just to suffer?!
How tf does Mortal Kombat have the best animal models I've ever seen in a game
Me: I wonder what animal Reptile will turn into!
Reptile: *Turns into a plant*
Me: WTF?
Because he is already doing deathrolls and stuff that crocs do. He is already an animal, so he becomes a plant.
Plantality
I thought the same thing too 😂
Reptile wins! *VEGETALITY.* 🪴
I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE!
Phoenix Lui Kang is perfect. Dude is a firegod a rebirthed the universe
One thing I love about the animalities is that they're animated with a sense of conscious behavior that you'd see in a PERSON. They use bits of their anatomy in ways an animal would never think to, like Scorpion using his tail to toss them up for a claw slash, or Shang Tsung being a cobra, but using his teeth to twist their head off rather than poisoning them or swallowing them whole.
19:25 reptile turning purple from becoming constricted is also a nice touch
I was expecting animalities to be short and simple like the kameo fatalities; I love how creative and brutal most of these are.
2:59 is totally a reference to the Peter Jackson King Kong movie. Kong finishes off a T-Rex by prying his jaw apart like that
I give the Peacemaker Animality a 1776 outta 10.
🤣🤣🤣 now that's hilarious 💯
HA!
6:14 I think they could have done a little bit better with Liu Kang's phoenix. I like where they were going, but the phoenix disappears too fast and pile of ash appears way too quickly. The way it currently is shot makes the pile of ash awkwardly just appear, despite the seemingly concussive force of the phoenix explosion. Had they made it so that the ash rained down and collected into said pile of ash, then I would have been satisfied with it.
If I were doing this animality, I would have had it be slightly a little longer. Where the camera switches from the charred corpse inside to the exterior shot of the phoenix, I would have had the phoenix just be consumed by the fire, but not explosively. Instead, I would have had the flames burn super huge and bright, then hastily die down. Then, before the flames are all but snuffed out, the camera switches to focus on a single remaining feather, which drops towards the remaining dying flames and the pile of ash. It begins to play the "Animality", then the feather hits the pile of ash, right as the last flames are snuffed out, and the phoenix rises from the ash.
With how gladiator inspired Reiko's design and gear is in this game I'm surprised he doesn't turn into A lion.
They probably saving that one for Conan
This is an Aries/Mars reference. He is Aries the archetypical war god, whose symbol is the ram.
So weird how they just gave him a 6💀 It’s definitely not the best but also not the worst. I think the flying head is doing a lot for Reiko’s!
Every kombatant: transform into badass animals that still kinda resemble what they are
Peacemaker and Homelander: MURICAH!!!!!!
I do posts on Aztec history and archeology, and Kitana's Hummingbird animality here shoulda been what Kotal got instead of his Jaguar stuff. For whatever reason the games/comics keep calling Kotal "Buluc", a Maya god, but Kotal is clearly based on Huitzliopotchli, a patron god of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital: Kotal's moveset and gear names use Nahuatl (Aztec language) words, Kotal's variations being tied to War, Sun, and Sacrifice all mesh with Huitz.'s associations, and Huitz. also has blue-green body paint and wields the fire serpent Xiuhcoatl as a weapon, and Kotal's concept art shows that was inspiration of his snake sickles. Huitzliopotchli was tied to Hummingbirds, his name even meaning something like "Left/South sided hummingbird" or "Hummingbird from the left/south": Hummingbirds were tied to warfare and combat, both perhaps because their quick movements and long beak evokes swift combat and strikes and males tend to get into fights with each other, but also because soldiers who died in combat were thought to be reborn in a floral realm of the sun where they suckled on nectar as Hummingbirds or butterflies.
Thanks for this, you’re making comment sections still matter
That's a cool info. Very grateful for this bit of insight!
I think you put more effort here into the idea than they did. Gotta remember Mortal Kombat characters are loosely based on cultural stereotypes and pop culture references rather than anything actually historically accurate. I'm pretty sure when designing Kotal they just went "Hey lets make an Aztec-ish character to replace our Genghis Kahn reference character, kinda like Ogre from Tekken 3 but with a backstory full of plot armor that he'll never have in the games."
@@shinzero0271 To be clear, I think Kotal is actually the least-badly handled Mesoamerican fighting game character: Tam-Tam and Huitzil aren't even really Mesoamerican, Ogre is as far as I can tell a complete nothing sterotype, and Necalli is even worse in his default form (tho I think his story mode form is a visually neat reference to some Mesoamerican mosaic artwork). Aside from his outfit and the jaguar elements instead of the hummingbird ones, Kotal is a pretty solid adaptation of Huitzliopotchli, and I'm willing to give MK slack since as you say, it's entire theme is over the top 80's action movies and those were filled with sterotypes.
@@MajoraZI think they whent with the jaguar in mk11 because of when you think of South America or even Aztec I think jaguar but hell I could be wrong
As an animal nerd I love how accurate they real animals were. Lowkey nerded out when they got a scorpions mouth anatomically correct
Yeah, Ashrah's is perfect in every way. The rainbow trail, the majesty, the rainbow vomit..
Are we sure it's not fire?
@@Spikero2 I mean, we've all had that vomit at one point or another...
It is rainbow fire. @@Spikero2
My Little Pony as a fatality.
I refer to it as Rainbow Glitter-Flame.
Reptile is just Poison Ivy's supermove in injustice 2
Not only is reptile in constant danger but so it’s the camera man lmao
The camera man is the goat since MK 1 (original), that man has seen a lot of sh*t lol
Someone needs to remind Shang Tsung that cobras aren't constrictors.
That bat had better voice acting then megan fox herself.
Also, the funny thing? Nitara's battle cries and sounds weren't Megan Fox. Those were Cristina Vee. They knew she was so bad, they got someone else to do those too.
I still can't fathom having an accomplished voice actor on your payroll only too swap her with an actor who is only famous because she showed up in transformers
@@OsakaLoverwhy they didn’t just make an alternate skin for Nitara for the Megan Fox fans and have Christina Vee be the voice for Nitara as default is beyond me
Homelander is pretty good, hes a monster so he got a monster verison of a Eagle, Americas fav animal. Peacemaker is basically that video with the eagle with guns and the some America Fuq' yEAH playing in the back
8:20 cram
How could I forget about that
Everyone who hating Phoenix Liu kang are not my friend
I like Phoenix Liu Kang.
I don't hate it... But the Dragon man, it was right there...
Never thought I'd be saying "Prettiest Fatality", but here we are.
@@goodriddancesway6486 You’re right. At least it’s sorta close.
@@goodriddancesway6486he already has a Dragon fatal in this game
16:01...that was probably inspired by the bear attack in The Revenant movie with Leonardo.
MK's Rate the Finishers: **exists**
Reptile: Ah sh*t, here we go again...
I'm glad animalities are back in mortal Kombat 1 2023
Reptile HHHHHHATES this one youtube trick.....
don't worry, he is fine...
7:22 finally someone said it, NRS needs to make a beat em up RPG
It's ok, they changed the blood to green so it's family friendly. You know, for kids!
You got to love TH-cam's logic
That's why they chose Reptile, the other characters have red blood.
Johnny Cage making a Jaws reference easily makes it an 11/10
If hummingbird Kitana turning someone INTO A FLOWER isn't a 10 I swear to motherfucking god
The artists and animators knocked these out of the park. Rain, Reptile, Li Mei...they're funny, gruesome, and like Max said, "snappy."
Peacemaker has the single greatest animality in the franchise history and it's easily one of the best fatalities in the franchise history
He did. He just didn't post it.
Absolutely agree. It's top notch fuckery and I'm all for it. Especially if you're a fan of the TV show.
REAL
Peacemaker: What the fuck is a kilometerrrrrrrrrr
Reptile’s animality reminds me of Poison Ivy’s super in Injustice 2 and every single time I see Tanya I am going to picture Patrick laughing and saying “it’s a giraffe!!”
I said the exact same thing omg (about Reptile)
No Elephant to make that joke to though. Shame really.
9:34 I love how the porcupine has the tarkat disease just like barkaka does
Homelander’s griffin animality is fitting because of his massive ego and how he thinks that he’s better than everyone including the seven
Mileena as an Orchid Mantis is cool as hell.
General Shao's is grizzly (lmao)
Peacemaker's is fucking incredible. 11 out of 10.
and i gotta agree with Max; Kitana is ABSOLUTELY a 10. girl POSED.
Shao sould be a bull, because the huge horns.
love the team up with Eagly on peacemaker.
Peacemaker's Animality is literally a Great one, he teams up with his Best Friend Eagly. Also the pain Reptile got to go through these, he's basically Kenny from South Park.
“OH MY GOD! THEY KILLED SYZOTH!!!”
@@Omega1-bq3wv"YOU BASTARD"
How did you all miss that the Phoenix is a reference to LK being the one who resets timeline? Its an easy 10/10. I love the Dragon, but it's been done so well in 2, 4 and 9, plus it was represented very well in his launch Fatal
100% Hummingbird is my favourite
Steve continues to have bad takes
Top 3
Top 3 right after Ashrah's! Very creative and so in-tuned with a hummingbird's primary indicators. And can we just talk about how it's a direct callback to Kitana's feathery VFX motif? So insane design perspective.
Just the detail in the animals makes it all up ❤
How did it they not realize the hummingbird turned him into a blood fountain… not a flower. What kind of a flower has liquid coming out like that haha
Some of these are the most gruesome fatalities than the ones in MK1 because of how realistic and/or creative they went.
the way the bear attacks is a reference to the revenant so its a personal 10/10
14:59 A wolf spider, my freaking nightmare
Omni-Man's Animality turns him into a Hail Mary a vicious alien from the Invincible comics that's as strong as him and unkillable.
The bear acts like the bear attack in The Revenant.
I wonder what animals will ghostface,t 1,000 and Conan the barbarian will turn into ?
Ghostface: Monkey
T-1000: I have no clue
Conan: Lion
@@Shneeg I think T 1,000 should be a chimera
They're going to have Terminator be either a transformer or one in the style of Beast Wars.
T-1000 a chameleon..
I've said this before: I think it would be funny if the T-1000 just turned back into his human form, because humans are technically animals and he's technically "transforming"
2:14 Vegetality
Beat me to it
Veggie tales?
What makes these animalities better than most fatalities is that they subvert expectations. When you watch someone like Sub Zero do a fatality, you expect "awe he gonna freeze the guy in some way and break him apart." Yeah, it looks cool but yeah, you had an idea.
Here they were talking like "Lu Kang has to be a dragon, its mandatory, and you got something different. 95% of the roster got something you didn't expect. Top that with the visceral deaths and some light humor and it makes it so much better.
Other than scorpion being a scorpion, but still. :P
@@sinteleon And Shang Tsung being a Cobra
Watch Ghostface be a skunk 😭😭
Why do you think that lol
@@skunkpawzBlack and white, fits his color scheme
@@skunkpawzblack and white color scheme, sneaks up when you least expect it
Or a honeybadger or a opossum
Ghostface would probably be a Raccoon. Just shows up everywhere and is always rifling through your things.
General Shao's bear is a reference to the bear attack in the Revenant.